Love data, science, technology & coding? How about vacations? Want to be part of a team where that all comes together? Want a chance to drive an extraordinary experience for travelers by connecting them with millions of vacation rental properties? Passionate about building and putting complex models into production to solve relevance and personalization problems, great at model implementation, testing and evaluation? If so, then HomeAway has a Machine Learning Engineer role for you and would like to talk to you!
Challenges you'd get to work on:
Classify images and annotate images at scale
Reverse Image Search technology to find fraudulent listings and related properties
Deploy ranking and recommendation algorithms at scale
Recommendation systems that automatically derive user interests using passive signals
Refactoring experimental code for production-quality deployment and execution.
Responsibilities: Serve as the dedicated engineer to the Economics and Data Sciences team here at HomeAway
Work on larger programs/initiatives encompassing several projects that have a company-wide impact
Assist the implementation and deployment of systems used for data collection, machine learning model training, and deployment of machine learning models
Be an authority in the Deployment and Scoring phase of model development.
Articulate storytelling to business & product leaders - i.e focus on telling the inessory that the data shows (and abstract the data complexities and process involved) and have a strong influence on the audience
Work closely with various Product, Business and Engineering teams
Oversee implementation of Agile processes within the Data Science team.
Qualifications: 5+ years of experience in Software Engineering, Machine Learning, Data Science and analytics fields
Experience with programming languages such as Java, R, Python, and Scala
Experience with AWS and distributed systems
Experience with Agile software development process
Experience working in Hadoop ecosystem
Experience working with Big Data
Strong database knowledge and expertise in SQL
Experience implementing and deploying various Machine learning models
Good storytelling and presentation skills i.e be able to present business side of the story that data presents to c-team and business leaders
Optional: Masters or Ph.D in Statistics, Math, Computer Science or other quantitative field
Benefits: Competitive health and insurance benefits
Competitive salary
Annual target bonus or commission
Paid vacation and sick time
Vacation rental on a yearly basis (taxable benefit)
Employee Stock Purchase Program
Free snacks and beverages
Frequent company update talks with our leadership team
Free listing on HomeAway.com
Electric, adjustable stand-up desk
Discounted Metro & Rail pass
Casual dress code
